A phone number can be a really useful way to verify you are a real person. I don't see why this is an issue.
Threads.net Can Go to Hell
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#32I just remembered that I read a bunch of comments here back when Threads launched about how Twitter was dead and Threads would replace it. A few months later and Threads is effectively dead. Pretty funny in retrospect.
Reddit is dead too.
(Ignore the fact that it's gone from #18 to #17 global ranking over the last three months. [1])
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#33I just remembered that I read a bunch of comments here back when Threads launched about how Twitter was dead and Threads would replace it. A few months later and Threads is effectively dead. Pretty funny in retrospect.
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#34I remember when Instagram started asking for your date of birth in order to use it, which prompted me to take a nice break from it. The next time I checked in, they made it so that you could have a "shadow birthday" tied to your age and the current date. I wonder if that'll affect me in the event I have to go through the kind of ID verification hell I see reported everywhere (including replies to this post).
> I remember when Instagram started asking for your date of birth in order to use it
It still does.
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#35>In more than one way, the users of Threads lose from my non-participation. Wow, this guy…
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"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#37> I would urge everyone to reconsider your reliance on Twitter, and reinvest in decentralized options such as blogs, RSS, and email. None of these suggestions replace what Twitter offers as a whole. Suggesting blogs, RSS, and email as a replacement really is just another way of saying you don't know understand the domain. Which is fair, considering who the person is. This is not to say that blogs, RSS, and email can'…
> Which is fair, considering who the person is.
What is that supposed to mean?
I used Twitter from 2008-2012 and 2016-2022, ten (nonconsecutive) years. So I think I understand the domain pretty well.
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#38>In more than one way, the users of Threads lose from my non-participation. Wow, this guy…
This comment violates the HN guidelines, in more than one way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
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#39>In more than one way, the users of Threads lose from my non-participation. Wow, this guy…
This comment violates the HN guidelines, in more than one way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Don't be snarky." "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work." "Please don't pick the mos…
(This is the author of the blog post.)
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#40>When I signed up, however, my Instagram account was immediately suspended, before I even had the chance to use it. If you haven't already made accounts in any major platform many years ago, getting in without giving a massive amount of personal information (up to having to send your very own personal documents, such as your passport) is not as simple as just signing up, and it gets worse if anti-fraud algorithms pic…
I am rooting for Mastodon to become a major platform. There you can just sign up while hardly giving them anything.
The flip side is that spammers too can just sign up quite easily.